Bad moon rising, the prom night murders memoir

by Ed Morrison

Other authorsMindy Morrison
Paper Book, 2019

Publication

Bloomington, IN : Archway Publishing, 2019

Collection

Call number

Non-Fiction M

Physical description

287 p.; 23 cm

Status

Available

Call number

Non-Fiction M

Description

Ed Morrison's brother, Michael, and his spunky girlfriend, Debra Means, never made it home from the Mascoutah Community High School prom held on May 3, 1969. Two days later, their bodies were discovered near an abandoned strip mine on the outskirts of town. After taking his victims at gunpoint, Marshall Wayne Stauffer raped and strangled fifteen-year-old Debbie and dispatched eighteen-year-old Mike with three shots to the back of his head. In this true crime memoir, Ed Morrison chronicles his journey nearly fifty years after that fateful night to learn the truth of what happened, illuminate the evil within a murderer, and find resolution. Gathering insight from interviews with former police investigators, attorneys, judges, a survivor of a similar attack, and prison personnel, Morrison exposes the raw emotions that accompanied the senseless killings. He traces the murderer throughout his life, uncovering facts and unknown stories about his cross-country crime spree, imprisonment, and eventual death--before he could be convicted of the murders. Bad Moon Rising is the gripping true story of one man's quest to uncover the truth fifty years after his brother and his girlfriend were murdered on prom night.… (more)

Language

ISBN

9781480878266
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